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0.11. OLMSTEAD. f Corset 1 No. 230,806. Patented Aug. 3, i880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FEreE.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,806, dated August 3, 1880.

Application filed J une 26, 1879.

To all whom it may conoernr Be it known that I, OHAUNCEY L. OLM- STEAD, of Vest Brooktield, in the State of Massachusetts, hm einvented an Improvement in (Jorsets, of which the following is a specitic-ation.

Corsets have heretofore been made with busks or steels at the front edges of the half parts, which busks are provided with studs and loops forming clasps. Flaps and underlaps have also been made use of,-with and without bones or other stiffening material in the flaps.

My invention does not apply to either of these devices; but it does apply to the mode of making the flap in one piece with the corset fabric, for avoiding the seams that have heretofore been used for uniting the flap with the fabric of the corset.

In the drawings, Figure l is a section illustrating the manner in which the lines of stitches are applied, and Fig. 2 is a section representing the corset-busks united and having the flaps made in the aforesaid manner. These are in larger size to represent the parts more clearly.

In preparing the material of thecorset the fabric for the ed ot' the fronts is made much wider than usual, so as to be folded double and form both the tiap and the pocket for the bush.

In Fig. l the fabric is represented as folded at a, and one, two, or more lines of stitching are applied at b and 0 to form the flap (1. One part of the fabric is then folded back at the line of stitching a, and then folded again the other way, as at e, in a manner similar to making a tuck, and another line of stitching is applied at 07, and from this line of stitching the corset is proceeded with as usual.

The distances between the fold a and the lines of stitching b and c are such that pockets are formed for the reception of the bones or ribs sf, and the distance between the fold e andline of stitching t' is suflicient for the reception of the husk or steel 1".

This mode of manufacture allows of the flap being made of the same fabric as the other part of the corset without the use of separate pieces of material and lines ofstitches, as heretofore employed for the separate flap to the corset.

The flap can be made of the same fabric as the edge portion of the corset, whether the flap is started from the central part of the busk or steel, as shown in Fig. 1, or from near the inner edge, as shown by dotted lines at c, Fig. 2. In either instance the pocket for the busk is in a position to the flap and body of the corset similar to a tuck, so that the strain does not come upon a separate piece, but the ,flap and corset fabric are all in one.

It is to be understood that it' the flap were at the edge of the corset as a continuation of the material beyond the edge of the busk, the

same would be liable to interfere with the hooking of the clasps. By making the flap with the fabric of the corset and swinging it at a line 01" stitching that is back from the edge of the bush this difficulty is avoided.

I claim as my invention In combination with a corset-clasp spring, a spring inclosed in a pocket, joined to the pocket of the said clasp-spring midway of its width or forward of the rear edge of the claspspring pocket.

Signed by me this 21st day of June, A. D. 1879.

GHAUNOEY L. OLMSTEAD.

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GEO. P. DUELL, GEO. W. JOHNSON, 

